He moved to the US the next year where he began his Hollywood career at Columbia Pictures and eventually moved to 20th Century-Fox. He directed the ill-fated Let Us Live, the true story of two men wrongly convicted of murder who were almost executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Authorities there were embarrassed by the incident and put pressure on the studio to cancel the film. The studio made the film nonetheless, but quietly, with a small budget.[citation needed]

In his book, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968, American film historian and critic Andrew Sarris states that Brahm "hit his stride" in the 1930s with "mood-drenched melodramas", suggesting that Brahm went into artistic decline after this period. Sarris further notes that Brahm did not lack work, as he made "approximately 150 TV films"[3] during the 1950s and 1960s, directing numerous episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. Brahm's last full-length film was Hot Rods to Hell.[4]

He married his first wife Hanna, an actress, who ran off with another actor leaving him seriously depressed. He married, secondly, to actress and singer Dolly Haas,[2] who married Al Hirschfeld, the caricaturist after their divorce. In the 1950s he married his third wife, Anna, with whom he had two children.[citation needed]